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Station

Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup

1941 to 1974 · on R&B / Soul · born 1905, died 1974

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Active years

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The journey

19401945195019551960R&B / Soul1946
  1. 1946R&B / Soul · That's All Right

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Platform

  1. R&B / Soul1946 to 1954

    That's All Right

    A Mississippi bluesman recording for RCA's Bluebird label, Crudup wrote and cut "That's All Right" in 1946 over a driving rhythm that sounds like rock and roll eight years early. Elvis Presley's 1954 cover made the song famous and made Presley's career; Crudup saw almost none of the royalties and went back to farm labour, and the long fight over his publishing is one of the standing indictments of the record business.

    Key album: That's All Right, 1946

    Source: Charlie Gillett, The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll, Souvenir Press (revised edition), 1983

Connections

InfluencedElvis Presley

The line

R&B / Soul (R&B / Soul family)

Sources

  1. Charlie Gillett, The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll, Souvenir Press (revised edition), 1983
  2. Nelson George, The Death of Rhythm and Blues, Pantheon Books, 1988

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The Metro Map of Music, ‘Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup: station’, /stations/arthur-crudup.